 This is a set-top box. You may even have such a thing. It's a Motorola digital cable sort of unit and Within the consumer electronics world. There is an amazing fight going on among people who do cable set-top boxes as to whose cable set-top box will be on top of your set-top if you should have cable and It might seem like a rather silly kind of thing You don't really think about your cable set-top box and again It may turn out that cable set-top boxes all lose they all go away Everybody gets their CNN and their NBC and everything else over the internet someday and at that point Who needs these things on the other hand it may turn out that the internet is what withers what goes away What turns out to be inefficient or otherwise unsuited to the powers that be for the delivery of content and the cable box Actually makes a resurgence. These are some of the battles that are underway right now Then when we do iLaw five years from now We'll look back and see how stupid we were not to predict which way it was going But right now we're still just feeling stupid not knowing which way it's going to go So I'm gonna offer some of each of the pads Similarly here is a trusted Pentium 3 computer already, of course vastly outdated, but Old or new is this the past or is this the future that we're looking at the idea of interacting with technology Using a little keyboard like that with obscure keys like scroll lock still stuck onto it hooked into a computer That you put more likely in your den people have dens in your den in your bedroom in your study Rather than in your living room as an entertainment device again The convergence that people have been talking about has not yet happened and should it happen as it very well might Some things will be gone They will be left out and the computer the PC may very well be one of them and this again is not just a kind of Horse race if this were HBS if this were the business school It would just be an interesting horse race right who will be the winners and losers of the information age Who cares right unto itself? Except now that we are talking law school sorts of things how it might affect the ability of The government of outsiders of those who are the winners to control to control the content to control the users to monitor The users all the sorts of issues that get to privacy property speech control of the content rather than simply An issue of you know, what stock is the one to buy right now? I won't dare to offer stock tips on DVD Tivo Tivo Tivo, so I won't do that